In the information communication technology (ICT) market, semantic technology systems that utilize meta-information are beginning to attract considerable attention. By entrusting machines with the task of “understanding the meaning of information,” which humans have performed until now, it can be expected that productivity will increase, and sophisticated information processing will become a reality.
Attempting to teach machines to understand the semantics behind information is a topic that Web service providers are very conscious of as well. This is because, in the present environment where the volume of information is expanding on a daily basis, a general trend has emerged whereby information is not merely accumulated, but some practical use is sought from it.
Through this service, we help you to create meta-information that is compatible with semantic technology by embedding keywords into webpage contents. Through this process, information on a website can also be accumulated in the most usable format possible.
About meta-information
Meta-information refers to “information about a piece of information,” and it is also sometimes called metadata. Meta-information consists of keywords for explaining and categorizing the original information. For example, “title,” “author,” “date of publication,” and “price” are meta-information about publications.
An example of the application of meta-information is a webpage on a mobile phone company’s website where the user can search for mobile phones based on complex conditions. By storing features of mobile phones such as “color,” “shape,” and “dimensions” as meta-information, you can perform a search based on a flexible combination of attributes such as “red,” “folding type,” or “more than 3 mega pixels and thin.” You would also be able to investigate the types of mobile phones that users want, by analyzing the conditions that the users have specified in their searches.
A more sophisticated use of meta-information can be found in information processing in the field of life sciences. In life sciences, data required for research can have a wide variety of formats and structures, and different phenomena can interact in a complex manner. Under such circumstances, data mining techniques using meta-information are being researched and utilized in order to increase the flexibility of information processing.
About the meta-information support service
Websites contain various meta-information, including the page title and the date of the latest update; unfortunately, this meta-information cannot be easily obtained from websites. This is because the frameworks for representing meta-information are not sufficiently effective and have not been standardized.
The meta-information support service is designed to utilize meta-information that is compatible with semantic technology, which is drawing increasing attention.
Keywords are embedded inside webpage templates and HTML documents based on the content and information contained in the webpage where meta-information will be embedded. Keywords will utilize vocabularies (types of meta-information) commonly used with semantic technologies in order to create a high degree of interoperability.
Please note that the implementation and development of systems that use semantic technologies is not included with this service.
Service flow
- Interview
Through discussions, we will understand the goals for utilizing meta-information, and determine an appropriate scope for embedding keywords.
- Embedding keywords
In this step, we will correlate selected meta-information to each piece of information on a webpage.
- Creating a manual
We will then create a manual that contains descriptions of the embedded meta-information and procedures for updating them.
- Deliverables
HTML documents that include the associated meta-information and the manual will be delivered together as a set.
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